Movies

The Mannings are a professional couple--she's a doctor, he's a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their...

Norma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes....

A balding man drinks a whole bottle of hair tonic. The unexpected surplus of hair promises a successful showbiz career for him and his wife.

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea" for Alice Guy.

A man stops to have his shoes polished by a young boy. A woman, passing by, has her garter slip to the ground. She replaces it, raising her skirt to...

Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy.

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the...

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main...

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

Early short film by Emile Cohl

Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City. She doesn't find success as a singer, but...

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

Lost short film

A noted philanthropist is captured by a rowdy gang, but one of the children involved resists the gang's insistence that he turn to a life of crime.

Two policemen are required to dress as women to catch pickpockets.